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I have an external hard drive that I am having trouble with in Catalina.

The drive mounts properly but Spotlight will not search it.

The drive formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and is set up to potentially be a boot drive.

But. I just want to mount the drive and search it. Spotlight will not search it.

Is there an issue with Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format at Catalina? Or something I am not thinking about?

It is kind of driving me crazy. Thanks!

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For the record, the problem seems to have been with the Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format. I spoke to two Apple Geniuses (head supervisors). No one could explain why this was happening. But I decided to wipe the drive, reformat the disk, and put everything back on it.

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  • Any update on this? Have you managed to get it working ? – erratic Jan 8 at 18:56

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